Tropic Thunder

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pandabat

Viewer Rating:pandabat has rated Tropic Thunder rating: 2 Star

Ahhh, Hollywood! Take a great cast and put them together in a movie billed by some to be comedy of the year and what do you get? "Tropic Thunder" is what. Following the scrapes of a group of actors shooting a Vietnam movie who accidentally get caught up in real-life hosilities with a local drug militia, the movie begins with great laughs and great promise. Around a half hour or so in though, it all starts coming apart as the film becomes a Rambo/Platoon spoof without the parody. Jokes and laughs fall thin on the ground and soon you just want it all to end but even that has a bizarre taint to it thanks to some bull-dancing from La-la-land's #1 looper, Mr. Tom Cruise. Not as clever as it thinks it is but very good in its opening acts, you're probably best waiting for the DVD of this so that you turn it off once it stops being funny. If this is the comedy of the year then we have no hope as a species.

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07 October 2008 14:10

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